Battling ovarian cancer in knickers
Ovarian Cancer Action campaigns to raise awareness of this disease which is diagnosed in 7000 women in Britain each year. It is often called the "silent" cancer because it can be difficult to diagnose...
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My blog has not been updated recently because I have just been through a truly humbling experience. My dear friend – whose fight against ovarian cancer, diagnosed three and a half years ago and which...
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The virus which produces a foghorn cough – and from which most of the UK population seems to be suffering – attacked me some six weeks ago, disappeared for ten days and has now returned with a...
View ArticleOn World Ovarian Cancer Day, it's worth heeding Lord Saatchi's call for...
Listening to Lord Saatchi – whose wife died from primary peritoneal cancer, which behaves and is treated similarly to epithelial ovarian cancer – speak of the urgent need to change the legislation, in...
View ArticleThere's more to cancer than obesity and bad lifestyle choices
Following my last blog post, I received an email from a lady who had recently been in the USA and had found that Americans were amazed to hear that our NHS treats people whose chosen lifestyles may be...
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